Cannibal lover
you began with the lips
eyelids earlobes
moving on to breasts
you bit too hard
down down down
sucking on a sacred slit
gobbling body parts bit by bit
arms legs fingers toes
back of neck and even nose
Then you threw the clean bones down
upon your plate with a clattering sound
Sated you began to snore
So much free food
Was it a bore?
Here, I said, you forgot this part
and offered you a spoon of heart
MARGARET MASCARENHAS is a novelist, independent curator, consulting editor, and op ed columnist. She is the author of the diasporic novel, Skin, published by Penguin India (2001). She is also the author of the novel,The Disappearance of Irene Dos Santos (Grand Central, Hachette 2010) and of the spoken work poetry/flash and sketch collection Triage--casualties of love and sex (Harper Collins 2013). An American citizen of Goan origin who grew up in Venezuela, she currently lives in Goa and is the founding Director the Blue Shores Prison Art Project.
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